Patents by Inventor John A. Thompson

John A. Thompson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11970634
    Abstract: The adhesive composition comprising emulsion polymers and microspheres and articles made therefrom are provided. The adhesive is particularly suitable for packages for consumer products that provide sufficient strength and thermal insulation while reducing the overall basis weight of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGaA
    Inventors: Tianjian Huang, Kristina Thompson, Daniel Waski, John Meccia
  • Publication number: 20240136644
    Abstract: A power tool battery pack enclosure is configured to be coupled to battery pack receptacles of a plurality of power tools, each battery pack receptacle configured to removably receive a plurality of power tool battery packs. The enclosure includes a first clamshell member and a second clamshell member configured to be coupled around at least a portion of an exterior surface of each battery pack receptacle. Each of the first and second clamshell members have a top wall portion configured to be received over the exterior surface of the battery pack receptacle and a sidewall portion that extends downward from the top wall portion over at least a portion of the battery pack housing when the battery pack is received in the battery pack receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Jay WROBEL, Diane Leigh OLSON, David John THOMPSON, David Keith ESSLINGER, Michael VARIPATIS
  • Publication number: 20240109703
    Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers, the carrier includes a front portion, the front portion including a portion of at least one attachment panel for at least partially receiving a respective container of the plurality of containers, a back portion, the back portion including a portion of the at least one attachment panel for at least partially receiving a respective container of the plurality of containers, and a reinforcement portion extending from the front portion to the back portion for reinforcing the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jon Thompson, Ana Maria Gonzalez Manzano, Raymond R. Spivey, SR., Jean-Manuel Gomes, John Murdick Holley, JR., Matthew R. Kearns
  • Publication number: 20240108839
    Abstract: An interface for positive pressure respiratory therapy includes a mask assembly having a mask seal and a mask shell. The mask assembly is positioned lower than and exposes a bridge of the user's nose. The mask seal includes first and second portions on respective first and second sides of a nasal region that contact opposing sides of the user's nose. The first and second portions each include supports that help maintain a shape of the mask seal. A pair of covers can be supported relative to the mask assembly and adjacent a respective one of the first and second portions of the mask seal. The covers limit expansion of the first and second portions of the mask seal in response to pressurized air within the mask seal. The supports of the first and second portions can transfer load from the mask seal to the covers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Fadi Karim Moh'd Mashal, Kirstin Elizabeth Middelkoop, Roheet Patel, Peter David Alexander Bearne, Mark Andrew Thompson, Amit Galgali, Michael John Henri Cox, Gregory James Olsen, Mark Arvind McLaren, Max Leon Betteridge, Bruno Sintive
  • Publication number: 20240103156
    Abstract: A system and method for satellite imaging are provided. The system includes a first satellite, a trailing satellite, and a ground terminal. The first satellite acquires synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data in a first predetermined signal frequency band at a first imaging location and transmits the SAR image data to a ground terminal. The ground terminal determines a second imaging location from the SAR image data and transmits the second imaging location to the trailing satellite. The trailing satellite acquires higher resolution image data in a second predetermined signal frequency band at the second imaging location and transmits the image data to the ground terminal. Systems and methods for satellite imaging are also provided in which a first satellite captures image data and processes the image data onboard to generate a processed product which is transmitted to a receiving terminal at a ground terminal or on a second satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: John Bowers, Wayne Hoyle, Pat Malaviarachchi, Mark Senez, Ryan Oglow, Alan Thompson, Jelena Sirovljevic, Terence Lee
  • Publication number: 20240092905
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems for the expression of antibodies or antigen binding fragments in a subject, as well as methods of treatments of diseases therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander SEVY, Brian ABEL, Hong JIANG, Arun RATURI, Thornton THOMPSON, John LEWIS, Ping WEE
  • Publication number: 20240091067
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a moldable warming device is configured to provide, using a heating disc, therapeutic warmth and, using a harmonic RFSVG, tuned harmonic resonance frequency stimulation vibration according to determined tuning parameters across the contour of the entire surface of the user's eyelid and periorbital structures to induce expression of shear thinned and liquified meibum from each Meibomian gland in all four eyelids to improve the lipid layer of the surface of the user's eye tear film. According to an embodiment, the moldable warming device further includes a pair of removable and reusable eye pads, each eye pad including a miniaturized optical coherence tomography device configured to map, in real-time, a topography of the user's periocular surface, including a mapping of the eyes and the nose including interpupillary distance and corneal apex height above the lateral canthus to optimize conformance of the pair of eye pads to the periocular surface of the user's eyelids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: EYEDETEC MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Barry J. LINDER, Ronald D. LINDER, James L. DIPPO, Rubin D. LINDER, John A. SCHOLL, Vance THOMPSON
  • Publication number: 20240086749
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a service for managing quantum computing resources are disclosed. A task management service receives a description of a task specified by a client. From a pool of computing resources of a provider network, the service selects a quantum computing resource for implementation of the task. The quantum computing resource comprises a plurality of quantum bits. The service causes the quantum computing resource to run a quantum algorithm associated with the task. The service receives one or more results of the quantum algorithm from the quantum computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Marc John Brooker, James Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240083413
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling a vehicle in a stable drift are provided. With the goal of enhancing the driver experience, the disclosed drift control systems provide an interactive drift driving experience for the driver of a vehicle. In some embodiments, a driver is allowed to take manual control of a vehicle after a stable drift is initiated. For safety reasons, an assisted driving system may provide corrective assistance to prevent the vehicle from entering an unstable/unsafe drift. In other embodiments, an autonomous driving system retains control of the vehicle throughout the drift. However, the driver may perform “simulated drift maneuvers” such as counter-steering, and clutch kicking in order to communicate their desire to drift more or less aggressively. Accordingly, the autonomous driving system will effectuate the driver's communicated desire in a manner that keeps the vehicle in a safe/stable drift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: AVINASH BALACHANDRAN, YAN MING JONATHAN GOH, JOHN SUBOSITS, MICHAEL THOMPSON, ALEXANDER R. GREEN
  • Patent number: 11912279
    Abstract: Systems and methods for limiting functionality of a vehicle are described. In one example, vehicle feature modules may specify vehicle behaviors and vehicle operation is limited according to the specified behaviors. Vehicle actuators may be adjusted to limit vehicle operation according to the specified vehicle behaviors. The vehicle behaviors may apply to powertrain systems, navigation systems, climate control systems, lighting systems and other vehicle systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Thompson, David Hancock, Scott Christensen, John Rollinger, Jeremy Russell, Jeffrey Tumavitch, Dennis Light, David Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11894572
    Abstract: A power tool battery pack enclosure is configured to be retrofittedly coupled to battery pack receptacles of a plurality of power tools, each battery pack receptacle configured to removably receive a plurality of power tool battery packs. The enclosure includes a first clamshell member and a second clamshell member configured to be coupled around at least a portion of an exterior surface of each battery pack receptacle. Each of the first and second clamshell members have a top wall portion configured to be received over the exterior surface of the battery pack receptacle and a sidewall portion that extends downward from the top wall portion over at least a portion of the battery pack housing when the battery pack is received in the battery pack receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: BLACK & DECKER INC., GRACO INC.
    Inventors: Steven Jay Wrobel, Diane Leigh Olson, David John Thompson, David Keith Esslinger, Michael Varipatis
  • Publication number: 20240037064
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a processor having a functional slice architecture. The processor is divided into tiles (or functional units) organized into a plurality of functional slices. The functional slices are configured to perform specific operations within the processor, which includes memory slices for storing operand data and arithmetic logic slices for performing operations on received operand data (e.g., vector processing, matrix manipulation). The processor includes a plurality of functional slices of a module type, each functional slice having a plurality of tiles. The processor further includes a plurality of data transport lanes for transporting data in a direction indicated in a corresponding instruction. The processor also includes a plurality of instruction queues, each instruction queue associated with a corresponding functional slice of the plurality of functional slices, wherein the instructions in the instruction queues comprise a functional slice specific operation code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Dennis Charles Abts, Jonathan Alexander Ross, John Thompson, Gregory Michael Thorson
  • Publication number: 20240032998
    Abstract: A catheter has a two-piece tip electrode with a shell and a support structure that are secured to each other by multiple redundant mechanisms in order to reduce the risk of tip detachment during a procedure. The tip electrode includes at least two different welds attaching the shell to the support structure to provide a dual failure mode. One weld includes a seam weld and another weld includes a penetration weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. CLARK, Daniel GONZALEZ, John THOMPSON, Ivan TOTTEN
  • Publication number: 20240032935
    Abstract: A device to occlude a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage of a heart of a subject is described. The device comprises an implantable occlusion apparatus comprising a proximal connecting hub and a radially expansible body configured for radial expansion upon deployment from a contracted configuration to a radially expanded configuration to fluidically occlude the left atrial appendage, an elongated deployment catheter having a central lumen, an elongated delivery catheter disposed in the central lumen of the elongated deployment catheter and having a distal connecting hub detachably attachable to the proximal connecting hub of the implantable occlusion apparatus for transluminal delivery of the implantable occlusion apparatus to the left atrial appendage, wherein the elongated deployment catheter is axially movable proximally relative to the elongated delivery catheter to deploy the implantable occlusion apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: AURIGEN MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tony O’HALLORAN, John THOMPSON, John KELLY, Matt MORAN
  • Patent number: 11868250
    Abstract: A processor having a functional slice architecture is divided into a plurality of functional units (“tiles”) organized into a plurality of slices. Each slice is configured to perform specific functions within the processor, which may include memory slices (MEM) for storing operand data, and arithmetic logic slices for performing operations on received operand data. The tiles of the processor are configured to stream operand data across a first dimension, and receive instructions across a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension. The timing of data and instruction flows are configured such that corresponding data and instructions are received at each tile with a predetermined temporal relationship, allowing operand data to be transmitted between the slices of the processor without any accompanying metadata. Instead, each slice is able to determine what operations to perform on received data based upon the timing at which the data is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Groq, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Alexander Ross, Dennis Charles Abts, John Thompson, Gregory M. Thorson
  • Publication number: 20230404658
    Abstract: A device (10) to occlude the left atrial appendage (1) of a heart of a subject comprises an implantable occlusion apparatus (30) configured for radial expansion upon deployment to fluidically occlude the left atrial appendage, an elongated catheter member (80) having a distal end attachable to the implantable occlusion apparatus for transluminal delivery of the implantable occlusion apparatus to the left atrial appendage, a tissue energising module (20) having a plurality of electrodes (26) disposed around a circumference of the implantable occlusion apparatus in which each electrode is configured to contact a wall of the left atrial appendage at a tissue focal point upon deployment of the implantable occlusion apparatus, and an electrical controller (40) including a pulsed field energy delivery generator operably attachable to an electrical power source (50) and the plurality of electrodes and configured to energise the electrodes in a pulsed field ablation modality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AURIGEN MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tony O’HALLORAN, John THOMPSON, Conor ALLEN
  • Publication number: 20230405194
    Abstract: A breast pump system comprises at least one wearable milk collection hub connected via an air line to a combined external air pump and control unit. Each milk collection hub comprises: (a) a breast shield made up of a breast flange and a nipple tunnel; (b) a flexible diaphragm that is configured to prevent milk from reaching the external air pump; (c) an outer shell that is configured to removably attach to the breast shield, such that, when attached, the breast shield and outer shell form a vessel for collecting milk; and (d) a diaphragm cap that is configured to be secured over the diaphragm, forms part of the front face of the outer shell, and includes a port connected to the air line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thibault DE BECDELIEVRE, Oliver BLANCHARD, Georgia THOMAS, Daniel John THOMPSON, Adam ROLLO, Paul REID, Jonathan O'TOOLE, Jack BILTCLIFFE, Clare LARKSPUR, Claudia BRUEN
  • Patent number: 11819266
    Abstract: A catheter has a two-piece tip electrode with a shell and a support structure that are secured to each other by multiple redundant mechanisms in order to reduce the risk of tip detachment during a procedure. The tip electrode includes at least two different welds attaching the shell to the support structure to provide a dual failure mode. One weld includes a seam weld and another weld includes a penetration weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Clark, Daniel Gonzalez, John Thompson, Ivan Totten
  • Patent number: 11822510
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a processor having a functional slice architecture. The processor is divided into tiles (or functional units) organized into a plurality of functional slices. The functional slices are configured to perform specific operations within the processor, which includes memory slices for storing operand data and arithmetic logic slices for performing operations on received operand data (e.g., vector processing, matrix manipulation). The processor includes a plurality of functional slices of a module type, each functional slice having a plurality of tiles. The processor further includes a plurality of data transport lanes for transporting data in a direction indicated in a corresponding instruction. The processor also includes a plurality of instruction queues, each instruction queue associated with a corresponding functional slice of the plurality of functional slices, wherein the instructions in the instruction queues comprise a functional slice specific operation code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Groq, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Charles Abts, Jonathan Alexander Ross, John Thompson, Gregory Michael Thorson
  • Patent number: 11813619
    Abstract: A spray tip comprises a tip body, a tip piece, and a pre-orifice piece. The tip body has a fluid channel along a channel axis (AC). The tip piece is disposed within the fluid channel, and has a stepped, narrowing passage that terminates in an outlet orifice. The pre-orifice piece has an inlet passage, and is disposed within the fluid channel, abutting and immediately upstream of the tip piece. The pre-orifice piece and the tip piece together define a turbulating chamber therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Dale Becker, Diane Leigh Olson, Craig Joseph Wojciechowski, David John Thompson